Risk Management
Engaging everyone in a risk management mindset can transform a healthcare organization into a more successful and competitive entity.
Submissions for speaking opportunities at the health IT conference are open until July 16, 2018.
The lack of proper PPE can lead to hospital-acquired infections, poor safety scores, low public rankings and government penalties.
About 47 percent of physicians who indicated they had been harassed said they were harassed by another physician.
LifeBridge said they discovered the breach on March 18, which involved malware that infected the server that hosts their EMR, patient registration and billing systems.
While gap analysis can find existing vulnerabilities in an organization's security, it's not an equal substitution for HIPAA-required risk analysis.
As original estimates of how many specimens were destroyed doubled from 2,000 to 4,000, chief executive Thomas Zenty explained how the hospital is handling the situation.
Researchers put the onus on hospitals, manufacturers and regulators to do a better job of reducing contamination and called for an end to manual cleaning processes.
Merger and acquisition activity sent waves through the information security sector too, and CIOs are acutely aware of the security complications medical devices and telehealth bring.
While the MSSP overall was a net cost to CMS in 2016, there is evidence that individual ACO performance may improve with experience.